Avoiding the DCOM Error during Office 2000 Install

If you are using ZENworks for Desktops 2.0 to do a silent install of Office
2000 to Windows 95 machines, you get a DCOM error during the install (if
DCOM is installed) and your users need to click 'OK', the only option,
to continue the install. We all know how many calls to the Help Desk
this sort of thing can generate.

According to Microsoft, they are aware of the problem but offer no
workarounds.

I called a simple batch file from the NAL objects' prelaunch scripts
which renames the DCOM dll's to .bak prior to the install and get no
error message.

The only hitch is you need to call the second batch file, naming it
back to .dll, from the Transform (MST) file as a post install exe.

This has worked beautifully for us. Here are the batch files, in case you want to give it a try.